GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS.' 



cT, indicates the male : $ , the female. 



Acuminate, terminating in a point. 



Apex, that end of a limh or segment -which is the more remote from an 



imaginary line lying between the prothorax and elytra. 

 Base, that end of a limb or segment which is rearer to the imaginary line just 



referred to ; thus the base of the prothorax meets the base of the elytra 



and the base of the scntellum. 

 Bifid, cleft in two. 

 Buccal cavity, the opening at the end to the rostrum which contains the 



mouth-parts. 

 Callus, a comparatively lar/^e, rounded prominence. 

 Carina, a narrow and usually rather sharii ridge. 

 Cephalic, belonging to the head. 

 Clavate, terminating in a club. 

 Compressed, flattened as if by lateral pressure. 

 Condyle, the ball-like terminntion of a joiut moving in a socket, especially of 



the antenna. 

 Connate, soldered together. 

 Corbels, the flattened or excavated area at the apex of the tibia in which the 



tarsus is articulated. 

 Coriaceous, having a surface like thnt of leather. 

 Costa, a rounded ridge, broader than a carina. 

 Crenate. crennhde, furnished witli a series of small, closely set, rounded 



indentations. 

 Declivity, the posterior slope of the clyt ra. 

 Declivous, gradually sloping. 

 Dehiscent, gaping apart (usually of the elylra). 

 Dentate, furnished with a row of teeth. 

 Denticidate. bearing a row of very small teeth. 

 Depressed, flattened as if by pressure from above. 

 Emarginate, notched. 



Fades, the general aspect of a species, group, etc. 

 Ferruginous, rust-red. 

 Flavescent, yellowish. 

 Fovea, a rounded pit or impression, larger than a punctnr 



* Names of the parts of the body explained in the diagrams in the 

 Tntvoduction arc not incliuled here. 



